myPup is designed to replace the existing Puppy applications with "web 2.0" alternatives, allowing constant access to your files from anywhere. Of course, you can do this with Puppy already with bookmarked links, but this puts them on the menu and makes them easily accessible. This also gives us flexibility to add new applications quite simply and extends the versatility of Puppy without increasing its size.

All of the applications I chose are based on replacing Puppy applications and hopefully provide good support. You can always add applications back in by using Pupget. Although there are several options for a replacement of say gnumeric, I tried to choose just one that worked well, so as not to get a menu totally full. I am certainly open to suggestions for a better selection of applications.

There are similar projects out there based on other distros, but they are either quite large or limited in functionality. I think Puppy may be the perfect platform for this type of project. I kept many of the capabilities of Puppy intact, such as Gxine for music and video, many of the the smaller files tools and utilities for managing your local machine to keep this is a fully functional distro. I did simplify the menu a bit, so if you are looking for a Puppy application or utility it may still be available from the command line.

The iso weighs in at 88Mb (I was hoping for slightly smaller, but my smaller attempts all crashed and burned or I lost significant functionality that I could not repair).

As for the appearance, I kept JWM, but added wbar to reduce desktop clutter. I added a couple of jwm themes and small wallpapers. I also set the tray to hide to give the desktop a very clean appearance.

Bugs:
-Occasionally have to restart X if wbar does not render its faux transparency correctly.
-You have to click on the desktop to get wbar to show up sometimes.
-Printing-can you print with this? I have no way of testing this as I don't have any linux compatible printers. Please let me know.
- can't get divx to stream in Gxine...would we be better to add mplayer instead? My gut is to leave it as it is. You can always d/l the divx file and play it, rather than stream it.
- when streaming large files, you can max out your ram...you need to d/l the file first I think.

Why is the Download refused with a marked forbidden error 403? when I attempted to get it with wget -c?. I use a Dial up modem - is it a speed thing?

It is not a speed thing - I used DSL and got the same message. I then just clicked on the file to download with Seamonkey (this is not as reliable as wget - but it worked on the second attempt)

Very well done Rhino. It seems familiar to Puppy users with some exciting extra on line programs also available . . .
How big is the iconbar program you used? I remember trying it a year or more ago and thought how pleasant it is to use _________________Puppy WIKI

Nice job Rhino! I like the clean layout and creative use of online apps. Wbar looks cool too, got to try that out. I will d/l myPup as soon as I can. Thanks.
-TazOC_________________lhpup.orgLighthouse 64 6.02

Here are some on line links
http://mashable.com/2007/07/20/online-productivity-god/

The city 'square mile' of London is a hot spot that will spread to the rest of London, other UK cities - and eventually global coverage. I believe Sigapore has a similar system and Washington . . .On line services as a public service rather than a franchise will emerge. At the moment these services are free, then they will start charging . . . and after that they become services . . .

This process will take years.

So what Rhino is doing, show the way to Puppy on PC compatible phones and connected laptops etc.

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